Pension and platform transfer research: the lang cat needs YOU!
It’s a funny old industry we operate in. You’re sat at your desk; eating lunch and listening to the budget speech; mainly to see how much wine is going up by; and then! well, we were all there. There’s been a lot of discussion about the impact of Budget 2014 on various aspects of the […]
Friday fun: What if buying a tin of beans was like picking a direct platform?
Friday fun: What if buying a tin of beans was like picking a direct platform?
Kind of a big deal – Budget musings
No-one expected that. Budget? we thought. ‘Meh,’ we thought. We were wrong. This is the most impactful budget in terms of personal finance for a long time; certainly since the A-Day days, and maybe since I joined the industry in the mid 90s. Industry response has been feverish and has had us thinking of Anchorman […]
Kind of a big deal – Budget musings
No-one expected that. Budget? we thought. ‘Meh,’ we thought. We were wrong. This is the most impactful budget in terms of personal finance for a long time; certainly since the A-Day days, and maybe since I joined the industry in the mid 90s. Industry response has been feverish and has had us thinking of Anchorman […]
How the lang cat got its name

They say you should never meet your heroes, but when you get the chance to wander up to a slightly ginger Fifer in a red cap who wrote the song after which your company is named, you should probably do that. And that’s what I did on Wednesday night of this week when I went […]
How the lang cat got its name
They say you should never meet your heroes, but when you get the chance to wander up to a slightly ginger Fifer in a red cap who wrote the song after which your company is named, you should probably do that. And that’s what I did on Wednesday night of this week when I went […]
Are you being served?
On the way up from London the other day, I was flicking through the in-flight magazine and there was a feature on a British based luxury phone maker. In the feature, the CEO was talking about his business being completely customer focused. He says his business is driven by his customer’s needs and desires. It’s […]
Are you being served?
On the way up from London the other day, I was flicking through the in-flight magazine and there was a feature on a British based luxury phone maker. In the feature, the CEO was talking about his business being completely customer focused. He says his business is driven by his customer’s needs and desires. It’s […]
Cut-price fruit, Russian oligarchs and Gary Coleman
A wee roundup of some of the recent moves in direct platform pricing land. Pretty much everyone is in now bar one or two of the white labels who are working out what to do in the Land of Glorious Transparency which is what we are living in and all that. First up, Chelsea went […]